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O. F. GARVEY.

SOLDERING PLIBRS.

. No. 381,544. 8 Patented-AprpZll, 1888*1 wwwa: INVENTUF UNrrnD STATESPATENT Orestes.

OWEN F. GARVEY, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

SOLDERING=PLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,544, dated April24, 1888.

Application filed December 9, 1885. Serial No. 221,083. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t 12mg concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN F. Gnnvnv, of the city of Pawtucket, in theCount-y of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have iuvented certainnew and useful Improvements in Soldering Pliers or Tweezers, of whichthe following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification.

The object ot' this invention is to provide for tin-workers and others amost convenient form of soldering pliers or tweezers, adapted foruniversal use, and yet of most simple construction.

My invention consists of two pivoted levers or jaws with handles, incombination with removable jaws held in sockets in the short ends ofthelevers and made interchangeable, so as to adapt the pliers to varioususes. 'Iheseinterchangeahle jaws I hold in their sockets in the leversby means of set-screws.

A further feature of my invention is a peculiar spring Vfor operatingthe levers, having a bend or ooi] and two arms of unequal lengthprojecting therefrom.

Reference being had to the drawings, Figure l shows a side elevation ofthe pliers with my improvements. Fi gs.` 2 and 3 show other forms of theremovable jaws that may be substituted for those shown in the pliers inFig. l.

These substitute jaws, Figs. 2 and 3, are made of different shapes tohold differentshaped articles to be soldered. The jaw with a ring in theend is especially adapted for holding spherical surfaces, as balls orbuttons, and the jaw with a straight grasping'surfaee, as shown in Fig.l, is adapted to hold the eye of the button, whereby the parts may beclamped and soldered. together.

A and B represent two levers joined by the pivot C and furnished withthe spring D.-

E E are removable jaws made of steel wire or other suitable material,which are bent at their outer ends, or shaped to such forms as may bestadapt them to the work in view.

The levers A I3 may cross each other at the pivot G, so that the jawswill come together by' pressure on the handles,instead of opening bysuch pressure.

Each jaw E has a straight shank of a uni` form size and corresponding tothe bore ofthe socket formed in the end of cach of the pivoted levers,so that they may be readily inserted and removed. The setscrews Fholdthe jaws in place.

The spring D has a bend or coil, d, and two arms of unequal lengthextending therefrom and entering one into each of the levers Aand B toconnect them together. The unequal length of the arms of the spring Dprevents the bend d and that part oi' the spring from swinging out fromits proper posit-ion between the levers when the handles are pressedtogether, which the spring is liable to do if the arms are of equallength, unless some more expensive mode of fastening the ends of thespring is adopted.

Having thus described my'improvements, what I claim as my invention isl. The improved pliers herein described, consisting of the arms orlevers A,pivoted together, the unequal-armed spring D, remova bly andreversibly fixed between them, the jaws provided with longitudinal andtransverse perforations, theinterchan geable jaws E, fitted in thelongitudinal perforations, and setserews F,engaging said jaws throughthe transverse perforations, as set forth.

2. The improved pliers herein described, provided with arms or levers A,pivoted together and having in the ends of each a peri'oration, and ascrew-threaded opening transA versely located with reference. to andcommunicating with said perforation, removable and interchangeable jawsE, fitted in the perforations, and setsorews F, engaging said jawsthrough the screwthreaded openings, as set forth. l

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses, on this lst day of December, A.D. 1886.

OVEN F. GAEVEY.

'Witnessesa HENRY F., Jnnns, J ons G. FERRY.

